Radio Recall

Radio Recall - Brooke Blackburn

Brooke Blackburn, one of the three revolving hosts of Calling All Blues, has a fascinating family history. His father was one of Toronto's original Rock n' Rollers in the '50s. Brooke plays guitar in his Blackburn Brothers band.  

Radio Recall 54 - Hans Burgschmidt

Hans Burgschmidt began producing Undercurrents back in 1989. This CIUT program ran for a decade then Hans burned out. 25 years later we reconnect so we find out what Hans has been up to. And yes, I did cut the interview short coz I had to pee! But anyway, it was a good interview which i'm sure you'll enjoy. 

Radio Recall 53 - Career Buzz

Today's guests are Mark Franklin and Hota Kilani of Career Buzz, a CIUT program that debuted in 2006 and is still going strong. With a strong cast of characters doing the interviews, the show is about the art of listening to peoples' stories, their successes and failures and where it all led them. It's a fascinating topic that affects each and every one of us. As my cohort Peter Stamp stated: we all need a check up from the neck up. So with that said, here's our own check up on Career Buzz. 

Radio Recall no. 52 - Lenora Taylor

Lenora Taylor spent 14 yrs volunteering her services at CIUT. It s her father, Phil Taylor (of the Taylor Report*) who suggested that she get involved with the radio station and it turned out to be very good advice. She spoke to us from her construction site - she does renovations - by phone so there a few hammers and a jackhammer at times. 
Her mother, Simone (Johnston) was in The Travellers.
*You can hear our interview with Phil Taylor from Spotify. Just search out Radio Recall and he's number 14. 

RR 51 - Peter Rowe

Peter Rowe hit Toronto from his home in Hearts Content, Newfoundland in 1964 when he was 18. He and his wife Carol have been volunteering their time, twice a year, answering phones during CIUT's funding drives. The interview goes all over the place. We discussed radio in Toronto and Newfoundland, hospital visits with Foster Hewitt; The Mothers of Invention, Kinky Friedman and Joni Mitchel smoking cigarettes at Toronto's Hugh's Room. Lots of fun!

RR 50 - interview with Fred Spek

Fred worked at CIUT from 2000 to 2007. His duties were to record bands in Studio 3 in the basement of 91 St George (our old digs). I asked a lot of questions, taxed his mind and came up with a really good interview. 
Included on this program were a couple of songs Fred recorded in Studio 3. They are Bucket of Time (E Parry) by Corin Raymond with Darcy Yates (bass) and Marc Roy (lead guitar). The other one was Iansanity band covering Pink Floyd's Astronomy Domine 

RR49 - Lynn Slotkin

Lynn Slotkin was the theatre critic for the CBC for over ten years until the corporation brilliantly decided to shed itself of critics by getting rid of their music, art and theatre critics (they did retain their movie critics). Because of this, she migrated over to CIUT. So how does one become such a critic, who are their role models, what's the Toronto scene like and what is its history? We find out all the answers and more this week on Radio Recall. So let's drop in and hear what Lynn had to say to Peter Stamp and I. 

Radio Recall 48 - Guest - Rob Sanzo

Rob Sanzo arrived at CIUT in 1989 when he walked into the basement of our old location at 91 St. George. What he found behind the spider webs in the darkness of the bowels of the house was the perfect recording studio. A few months later, it was up and working as Studio 3. He stayed for a few years, moonlighting at night, recording bands as part of the deal. It led him into starting his own recording studio, called Signal 2 Noise where he recorded hundreds of bands. He has great memories of his time at CIUT. It was great catching up with him after more than 30 years.

RR 47 - Howl host Valentino Assenza

Howl is one of the most interesting programs offered at CIUT-FM. It was started by Nick Beat in the 1990s and has continued, after his death ten years ago, hosted by Valentino Assenza. We interviewed him from his home in Grimsby, ON the old fashioned telephone way.

Radio Recall re Jenny Blackbird 46

Jenny Blackbird is host of CIUT program Indigenous Waves head Mondays at 7 pm. She's been producing weekly episodes since 2015 but her experiences at CIUT began long before that. Her mother used to volunteer for the By All Means women's collective that produced daily shows in the 1990s. It was an enlightening episode, lots of fun to listen to.